How to Use trotter in a Sentence

trotter

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  • The bones in trotters and shanks provide gelatin, which thickens the stew.
    — Catherine M. Allchin, The Seattle Times, 11 Dec. 2018
  • Her picks for the main meal: herring foam and caviar or pigs trotters for the 'rents and a croque monsieur for the tike.
    — Sarah Rowe, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 May 2017
  • On the morning of the day prior to your khash feast, place the trotters in a large bowl and cover with water.
    — Benjamin Kemper, Smithsonian, 27 Feb. 2018
  • Lane of Stone, a 3-year-old male trotter, is the winningest horse on the card this year with eight victories in nine starts.
    — Bob Roberts, cleveland.com, 30 Aug. 2019
  • Last year's best 2-year-trotter, the colt is sidelined with a minor injury.
    — Tom Canavan, courant.com, 4 Aug. 2017
  • The globe-trotters are loading up on jeans, hoodies and candles.
    — Anne Kadet, WSJ, 25 June 2019
  • This is zampone, a staple of the holiday food menu -- a pig trotter filled with pork meat.
    — Julia Buckley, CNN, 27 May 2022
  • For now, the globe trotter is cozied up on a lounge chair in the sunlit basement of an empty Laurel Canyon Airbnb.
    — Thania Garcia, Variety, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Veal sweetbreads are fried to a crisp and served in a broth meant to evoke the flavors of bun bo Hue, a classic spicy noodle soup made with pig’s blood and trotters.
    — Brad A. Johnson, Orange County Register, 6 Feb. 2017
  • The palette is priced at $29, which, to be frank, is like a globe trotter's understanding of what drugstore prices are.
    — Rachel Nussbaum, Glamour, 13 Oct. 2017
  • Drain water, return trotters to the pot, and cover with 2 inches of fresh water.
    — Benjamin Kemper, Smithsonian, 27 Feb. 2018
  • Brawn's meaty French small plates include boudin noir, bone marrow, and gelatinous trotters.
    — Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Apr. 2017
  • Any conductor that helms a company of Lyric Opera’s stature is going to be a globe-trotter — there’s no two ways about it.
    — Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 23 Sep. 2022
  • Try some crab stick; or Spam with kimchi gimbap; or pig’s trotters, which on the packaging gets a grinning thumbs-up from a guy in a red bow tie.
    — David Segal, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2018
  • Other starters include pork trotter and sweetbread roulade with pearl onions and house smoked beef tartare, served with a pickled quail egg and potato chips.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 4 Oct. 2022
  • Serving as the base of the dish and topped with the pig and black pudding, these unctuous, creamy beans have bits of pig trotter floating in them, bringing even more richness to the party.
    — Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Here are the hotspots discerning globe-trotters will be clamoring to check into in 2020 and beyond.
    — Chadner Navarro, Fortune, 1 Jan. 2020
  • George Straw, a dedicated globe-trotter, doesn’t like the water.
    — Joanne Kaufman, New York Times, 5 July 2017
  • Diaphanous sheets of speck and pucks of fried trotters are piled onto picturesque salumi platters.
    — Garrett Snyder, Los Angeles Magazine, 18 July 2017
  • Holding a lit cigarette in an oversized hand, a woman rests her ample bare breasts adjacent to a pig trotter on a slab shelf.
    — Natasha Gural, Forbes, 30 June 2022
  • Although the identity of these early globe trotters is unknown, the new dates raise the possibility that H. erectus wasn’t the first hominin to leave Africa.
    — Ann Gibbons, Science | AAAS, 11 July 2018
  • But there are also more hard-to-find dishes like curried lamb Scotch eggs, deviled crab on toast, and a savory pie of the day (currently with a filling of chicken, pig’s trotter, and leeks).
    — Kate Kassin, Bon Appétit, 31 Oct. 2022
  • One animal chancing its trotter on the result is a piglet, which is betting its bacon that South Africa will secure a record-equaling third title.
    — Celine Ramseyer and Matias Grez, CNN, 1 Nov. 2019
  • The English standard savory pie will rotate flavors, with the first being a combination of chicken, pig’s trotter and leek.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 30 Sep. 2022
  • This is also one of the better spots for bun bo Hue, a hearty, spicy bowl of beef noodle soup amped with cubes of jelly made from beef blood, plus meatballs, pig shanks (or sometimes the trotters) and various innards.
    — Brad A. Johnson, Orange County Register, 27 Jan. 2017
  • Hamaya offers soba iterations with yushi tofu (tofu that hasn’t been pressed and formed), tebichi (pig’s trotters), or san-mai niku (three-layered pork).
    — Katherine Lagrave, Bon Appétit, 6 Nov. 2019
  • Give them a piece of Kentucky this holiday season with these local products that will make meaningful presents for your fellow globe trotters.
    — Savannah Eadens, The Courier-Journal, 18 Nov. 2019
  • Saving pitchers for the late season is great, however, taking out your workhorse to be replaced by a trotter only annoys the best player in all of baseball.
    — Los Angeles Times, latimes.com, 9 June 2017
  • Traditionally made with leftovers or lesser cuts of meats such as pigs’ trotters, the dish today has many variations.
    — Catherine M. Allchin, The Seattle Times, 11 Dec. 2018
  • And while these two fellows suffered from the same trotter's turmoil, their reactions were markedly dissimilar.
    — The Masked Observer, AL.com, 31 Jan. 2018

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